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Nov 11, 2022Liked by Kate Raphael

I liked my taste of staying out late, a rare delicacy for me, decadent and delicious and dose-dependent. It was worth the minutes lost of great nature’s second course. It was a dessert. ❤️

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Nov 13, 2022Liked by Kate Raphael

Hi Kate. Insightful piece on sleep and self! I struggle with sleep issues, so I really like your metaphor of the balloon — inflated, pinpricked, big holes, just the. casing:

A good night is airtight, an inflated balloon. When I wake up in the morning and push against a good night of sleep with my finger, it pushes back. A bad night of sleep is full of holes. Sometimes they’re small—pinpricks—and the air leaks out slowly, throughout the day. When I push against the bad night of sleep with my finger, it deflates even more. Sometimes, the holes are so large that the bad night doesn’t hold anything; it’s just the casing of a night of sleep that could have been.

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Nov 11, 2022Liked by Kate Raphael

You made me really think about our relationships with sleep. I seem to need more sleep to function. I never pulled an all nighter studying. There is also the issue of falling and staying asleep. My mother, your great grandmother, had a terrible time falling asleep, while I generally fall asleep immediately. You also touched on how rigid we can be, which bears looking at in all aspects of our lives. Thank you.

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Nov 11, 2022Liked by Kate Raphael

I'm looking forward to reading the Zevin novel. I loved her YA book Elsewhere, and I enjoyed a couple of her other adult novels.

I agree that We Were Three was great. I wasn't sure if I could get through it, because I am so angered by people who believe conspiracy theories to the detriment of their own well-being. But the podcast was done with a lot of sensitivity and compassion.

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